Physiological value-based efficient usable security solutions for Body Sensor Networks

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Venkatasubramanian, Krishna K ^a   Gupta, Sandeep K S ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Efficiency; Environmentally coupled security; Physiological values; Secure cluster formation; Usable security

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVE DATA; WEARABLE SENSORS;

CLUSTER FORMATIONS; ENVIRONMENTALLY-COUPLED SECURITY; HEALTH MONITORING; MONITORING SENSORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL VALUE; SECURE CLUSTER FORMATION; SECURITY SCHEME; SECURITY SOLUTIONS; USABLE SECURITY; VALUE-BASED;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77954990804     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1777406.1777410     Document Type: Article

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